theater

Presents ideas and advice on stage management and theater administration, discussing the role of stage management, tasks for before and during rehearsals, the production week, effects, stage fights and weapons, financial control, marketing, and venue and front of house.

Draws on documentary and visual evidence from the seventeenth century to examine the importance of costume, customs, manners, and behavior in the performance of Restoration comedy.

Presents eight twentieth-century plays from seven African countries, along with explanatory notes and over thirty background writings and works of criticism.

When Annie and her third grade class put on a play about nutrition, it has more surprises than the teacher expected.

Examines the life of sixteenth-century playwright and poet William Shakespeare, discussing major events and influences that shaped his work. Includes illustrations from the collections of the British Library.

Guide to the American theatre from its beginnings to the present.

When her pretty, talented, but willful younger sister becomes her rival for a role in a local show, eleven-year-old Nicola reluctantly steps aside but finds that her own special talents have not gone unnoticed.

After an actor is poisoned onstage and the body disappears, other mysterious events suggest that the theater conceals either his ghost or a clever murderer.

Sixteen-year-old Fortune faces many challenges on an overland journey to California in 1853 with the acting company that she inherited from her father.

Third grader Katherine turns to her idol Penelope Parks for advice on overcoming her stage fright and ends up developing a major attitude.